Physx cards worth it for ATi owners?

[lamere]

Just wondering everyones opinions on physx cards before they come obsolete......
is it worth getting one if you have an ATi card?
i was thinking of picking one up now since they are so cheap, or i should say cheaper than before.

cheers:beer:

 

[BassBomb]

They are worth it for about this many people:

























No, really.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Useless. Spend the money on games instead.

 

[SickBeast]

There's some guy working on porting PhysX to AMD hardware. I'd say give it some time to see how everything pans out.

How cheap have the PhysX cards gotten?

 

[lamere]

about 119 at the 'egg

i hear its really not a good thing for physx to run on ati hardware since ati has workings with havok and i agree

nvidia would love it though

 

[thilanliyan]

Hopefully one day I'll be able to use a spare nVidia card to run PhysX and use whatever card for 3D rendering. (If PhysX never comes to ATI hardware)

 

[Grinja]

Another thing to consider would be drivers for these cards ... I really doubt nVidia will be developing drivers for the old PysX cards.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: Grinja
Another thing to consider would be drivers for these cards ... I really doubt nVidia will be developing drivers for the old PysX cards.

They are still keeping PPU support for the near-term, but I would expect them to quietly drop it in another product cycle or two. At that point, whatever GPUs available will prob be decently faster anyway.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Only reason to get it would be if you're a huge fan of any of the games that it can be useful for...UT3 is just about it...

 

[Mavrick007]

It would be more worth it to spend the money on another card to run CF or SLI rather than run 1 vid card and the PhysX card.
I'd rather have faster frames than slow and pretty fireworks.

 

[gramboh]

Certain UT3 maps are the only practical application I've seen (aside from benchmarks). No one plays UT3.

 

[The Odorous One]

physx = future

It's going to be awhile before it becomes mainstream. Current cards will be obsolete by the time it is relevant.

Hopefully, it will be a bigger hit than X-Fi X-RAM.....